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This week, episode 339, the Treaties of Hopewell.

Over the last few episodes, we covered several treaties that freed

up land in western New York, western Pennsylvania, western Virginia, and the territory north of the

Ohio River, all of which made way for Western expansion. This provided new lands for settlers

from the northern states. Some of it would be sold to fund the Continental

Congress and pay off war debts. Other land would be used to provide promise grants to veterans

of the Revolutionary War. Of course, the southern states faced a similar challenge and opportunity.

With the war at an end, settlers from the southern states wanted to push further west into those lands as well.

These lands, of course, were claimed by various native tribes, including the Creek, Cherokee, Chalkta, and Chickasaw.

In 1785, the Continental Congress appointed five commissioners to negotiate terms with these southern tribes.

Two of the commissioners, Daniel Carroll of Maryland and William Perry of Delaware,

and they're profusing the appointments, so we won't talk about them.

Those who did accept were Andrew Pickens, Benjamin Hawkins, and Joseph Martin.

Andrew Pickens was born in Pennsylvania. Now, his family

had moved to Virginia and then to South Carolina while he was still a child. In 1764, as a young

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